Business questions
Will Better Work’s Assessment process change?
No. Better Work will continue to follow its existing assessment process, which guarantees the programme’s credibility and has been accepted by the ILO and national constituents where the programme operates.
Why is Better Work consulting with national constituents on the SLCP CAF 1.4?
Better Work is required by its ILO mandate to consult with governments, employers and workers in the countries where we work on our tools, data, reporting and methodologies. ILO constituents, including factories and workers, are the main stakeholders ...
How is Step 1 of CAF/Tool 1.4 different from Better Work’s existing Compliance Assessment Tool and how will this affect companies that are not part of SLCP?
In general BW continues to collect the same information and will keep its current process and approach intact. The tool covers all the areas (both compliance and basic information) covered in Better Work’s existing Compliance Assessment Tool. At a ...
What tool will Better Work be using in the future?
Better Work will use Step 1 of the CAF/Tool 1.4 to the extent it captures data from our own Compliance Assessment Tool (CAT) and includes essential data points to determine compliance with national laws and international labour standards. It will be ...
How have SLCP and Better Work been engaging to date?
Better Work has provided both strategic and operational advice and feedback to the SLCP Tool and Verification Protocol development processes since 2017. The ILO, represented by Better Work, sat on the Steering Committee (SC) of the SLCP as a ...
How do BW and SLCP engage?
As an ILO programme, Better Work cannot be a signatory to SLCP. As such, Better Work engages with SLCP in the development and use of the Tool (Step 1) without being bound to its protocols or to mirroring SLCP roles for verifying bodies, accredited ...
Will other SLCP-approved Verifiers operate in Better Work factories and countries?
No. SLCP-approved Verifiers will not operate in Better Work factories. The Better Work assessment will replace any other verification at the facility. However, SLCP is approving other organizations as Verifier Bodies in Better Work countries, in ...
Can non-Better Work facilities share their SLCP-verified assessment data to the Better Work program?
Not yet. Only assessments conducted by Better Work will be available on their platform, and facilities will have the option to share this assessment data with SLCP Accredited Hosts via the Gateway. If and once a future version of the Tool will ...
How can a facility in a Better Work country complete their assessment and share its data through SLCP?
Participation in the SLCP will depend on which category a facility falls into : Facilities that are enrolled in the Better Work program: can complete a Better Work assessment and share their data through the SLCP Gateway. Section 2 of these FAQs ...
Will the Law Overlay also be available for SLCP assessments in non-Better Work countries?
Not yet. In 2021, the Law Overlay will only be available for select Better Work countries, following agreement with national constituents. Over time, SLCP will introduce Law Overlays in other countries. Better Work will support the development of ...
When will the SLCP Converged Assessment Framework v1.4 become available in non-Better Work countries?
SLCP will launch the CAF v1.4 in all of the non-Better Work countries where the CAF v1.3 was available at the end of March 2021. At the same time, SLCP will launch operations in approximately twenty additional countries. For a list of countries where ...
What does the launch of the Converged Assessment Framework v1.4 with the Law Overlay mean in practice in Better Work countries?
Once the CAF is launched and available in a Better Work country, Step 1 will have a Law Overlay, a guide containing information on core international labor standards, national laws and ILO norms, to support compliance determinations in each ...
When will the SLCP Converged Assessment Framework (CAF) become available in Better Work countries? Which countries will be included in the 2021 launch?
The SLCP Converged Assessment Framework (CAF v1.4) will be launched with the ‘Law Overlay’ developed with Better Work, once national constituents (government, employers and workers) have signed off on the new Tool. From that moment onwards, the CAF ...